About the Authors

Piaopiao Pan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Conceptualization

Affiliations School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, PR China, Centre for the Microenvironment, School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom,

Konstantina Simou

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Yanting Ouyang

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine ShunDe Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Foshan, Guangdong, PR China

Lawrence Shere

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Jon A. Preece

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Simon W. Jones

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Edward T. Davis

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Yanling Lan

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, PR China

Zhenqiu Chen

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, PR China

Zhenyu Jason Zhang

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

lqg8512@gzucm.edu.cn (QL); z.j.zhang@bham.ac.uk (ZJZ)

Affiliation School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Qingguo Li

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

lqg8512@gzucm.edu.cn (QL); z.j.zhang@bham.ac.uk (ZJZ)

Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.